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SLIT-SHELL

Definition: SLIT-SHELL

SLIT-SHELL

Noun

1. Any species of Pleurotomaria, a genus of beautiful, pearly, spiral gastropod shells having a deep slit in the outer lip. Many fossil species are known, and a few living ones are found in deep water in tropical seas.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Modern Translation: SLIT-SHELL

Language Translations for "SLIT-SHELL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

切开壳. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

째 포탄. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

it-shellslay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SLIT-SHELL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-h-i-l-l-l-s-s-t"

-1 letter: hiltless.

-2 letters: hitless, listels.

-3 letters: heists, illest, islets, istles, lisles, listel, shells, shiels, shiest, shills, sliest, stiles, stills, thesis, thills.

-4 letters: heils, heist, hells, hests, hills, hilts, hists, isles, islet, istle, lilts, lisle, lists, lithe, sells, shell, shiel, shies, shill, shist, sills, silts, sites, slits, sties, stile, still, tells, thill, tiles, tills.

-5 letters: elhi, ells.

 Words containing the letters "e-h-i-l-l-l-s-s-t"
 

+5 letters: philhellenists.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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